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Moved you to any emotion, as long as it was significant enough for you to be permanently marked by it. I suppose extremely moved is more appropriate as there are too many to select one... Ill start.
In the midst of my narcissistic, self-centered, wild youth; when I saw this image, it made my very hard heart very soft.
Background on the Photographer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/r3h4b/vulture.jpg
Doc Safari
08-14-12, 11:50
I refuse to post it, but the photo of Jack The Ripper's last victim (Mary Jane Kelly) is enough to horrify even someone who doesn't consider themselves squeamish. Luckily the photo is black and white or I don't think I could have looked at it without throwing up.
scoutfsu99
08-14-12, 12:48
"They say that a dog is a man's best friend, and for Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson, 35, and his beloved and loyal dog Hawkeye, not even death could break this powerful bond..... "
http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_jon_hawkeye_dm_110825_wg.jpg
Major Bieger and Farah by Michael Yon
http://i47.tinypic.com/2edz6vr.jpg
(Photo reproduced with Michael Yon's permission http://www.michaelyon-online.com)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/r3h4b/vulture.jpg
Our Pastor spoke about this photo and the history of it last week. Very emotional moment.
I was unfamiliar with it until then. Truly an awful moment in time.
The most life changing thing I have ever seen where these photos and those like them.
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/0000074225-annals282-004.jpg
http://www.tonyrogers.com/images/wtc/jumper009.jpg
http://www.tonyrogers.com/images/wtc/wtc_jump_04_large.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/The_Falling_Man.jpg
The actual footage was worse.
This one:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3044/2887795428_90cd344908.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvincent1/2887795428/)
Katherine Cathey (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvincent1/2887795428/) by gvincent1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/gvincent1/), on Flickr
This one:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3044/2887795428_90cd344908.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvincent1/2887795428/)
Katherine Cathey (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gvincent1/2887795428/) by gvincent1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/gvincent1/), on Flickr
When I saw the threat title this is the photo that came to mind immediately.
When I saw the threat title this is the photo that came to mind immediately.
That one, the dog one and this one.
http://cowboypress.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/marine-handing-boy-flag-at-funeral.jpeg?w=584
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/104/610xsp.jpg
The 09/11 ones and the Michael Yon one of the soldier holding the little wounded kid are the ones that came to my mind.
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Steyr,
Same here. I can't describe how those pictures of the planes before and during impact and the people jumping make me feel every time I see them. It goes far deeper than any description.
On that Tuesday of 11 September 01 I was sitting in a waiting room with 5 smaller offices surrounding that waiting room with a TV facing myself and others. Upon the impact of the first plane a guy who was wearing a Marine Corps uniform came out of one of the offices and jokingly made the comment that the Air Force can't fly planes for sh$t. Everyone laughed. After the second impact the laughing ceased that day.
I was in Jacksonville, FL. at the MEPS station and was trying to get my initial enlistment switched from 3rd I.D. to the 82nd. After the second plane hit for the rest of the day the place was in lock down. No one went in or out. Most of us just stared at the TV for the rest of our time there knowing we signed up for service the same day an unknown enemy declared war on us. Those images and feelings of that day and others with me will forever be burned into memory.
-Jax
Moved you to any emotion, as long as it was significant enough for you to be permanently marked by it. I suppose extremely moved is more appropriate as there are too many to select one... Ill start.
In the midst of my narcissistic, self-centered, wild youth; when I saw this image, it made my very hard heart very soft.
Background on the Photographer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/r3h4b/vulture.jpg
Kevin was treated VERY badly over that shot. RIP:(
I will always remember 9/11, where I was and what was going on that day. The images of that day will always be burned into my memory.
The_War_Wagon
08-15-12, 08:26
The most life changing thing I have ever seen where these photos and those like them.
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/0000074225-annals282-004.jpg
The actual footage was worse.
Agreed. I've detested Mohammedans since Nov.4, 1979, but this REALLY sealed it for me. If they ALL fell off the face of the earth overnight, not only would they NOT be missed - we'd have a better planet in this pleasant exchange. :mad:
The Challenger explosion. I was just a kid when it happened but I was in tears all day it seems. For years after if the tv ever replayed the explosion I would turn my head. I just couldn't watch it.
http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac279/jaxman7/challenger-explosion_wide_-_ap_photo.jpg
I was in Jacksonville, FL. at the MEPS station and was trying to get my initial enlistment switched from 3rd I.D. to the 82nd. After the second plane hit for the rest of the day the place was in lock down. No one went in or out. Most of us just stared at the TV for the rest of our time there knowing we signed up for service the same day an unknown enemy declared war on us. Those images and feelings of that day and others with me will forever be burned into memory.
-Jax
Before that day I never TRULY understood my Grandfathers generation and their visceral hatred of the Japanese for Pearl Harbor. While I would have enjoyed a few more years with my Grandfather, 9-11 was so horrible I'm thankful he wasn't still alive to see it.
Nobody should have to go through something like that twice.
The Challenger explosion. I was just a kid when it happened but I was in tears all day it seems. For years after if the tv ever replayed the explosion I would turn my head. I just couldn't watch it.
http://i907.photobucket.com/albums/ac279/jaxman7/challenger-explosion_wide_-_ap_photo.jpg
As if the event wasn't bad enough, recently I was watching a documentary and learned that everyone actually survived the explosion of Challenger. They died in the fall, every one of them presumably unconscious.
I didn't even consider that such a thing would be possible. It's after the fact second guessing but if they had some kind of automatic parachute we might have saved some of the crew. Of course as we would learn, the entire event was preventable.
As if the event wasn't bad enough, recently I was watching a documentary and learned that everyone actually survived the explosion of Challenger. They died in the fall, every one of them presumably unconscious.
I didn't even consider that such a thing would be possible. It's after the fact second guessing but if they had some kind of automatic parachute we might have saved some of the crew. Of course as we would learn, the entire event was preventable.
Could've been prevented for sure. Morton Thiokol was the manufacturer of the o-ring seal that failed on the SRB. NASA had been aware of a design flaw in the seal since the late seventies.
Everytime it crosses my mind I pray they were all unconscious during the fall.
I'll never forget the line right before it happened, "Going throttle up".
-Jax
This one came to mind for me as well. Each one representing so much, the ripple effect of this image is staggering to me.
Wedding Rings from Buchenwald area.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/r3h4b/wedding-rings-jews-holocaust.jpg
This one came to mind for me as well. Each one representing so much, the ripple effect of this image is staggering to me.
Wedding Rings from Buchenwald area.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/r3h4b/wedding-rings-jews-holocaust.jpg
When I was a kid I started collecting all things WWI / WWII from medals, uniforms, daggers and guns. My grandparents knew quite a few people who "lost somebody" during the war and as a result I ended up with a rather large collection.
Most people couldn't bring themselves to throw away their loved ones "last items" but they didn't know what to do with the painful reminders so they usually ended up in a box in the basement. And when a kid came along decades later that showed a genuine interest and would take proper care of these items most were more than willing to let me have them.
Being a kid I was pretty oblivious to anything beyond the obvious. I understood they belonged to somebody they loved who didn't survive the war but I didn't even have enough perspective to fully appreciate the significance of that. To me they were "real uniforms of real army guys who fought in the war" and little more. They were interesting, exciting and cool. I imagined every owner storming the beaches of Normandy, fighting on Tarawa and saving the world (albeit at the cost of his own life).
Many decades later as an adult I was organizing my uniform collection and out from a Ike jacket fell an engagement ring. The implications of what that ring stood for and why it was placed in the jacket pocket and then boxed away in the basement hit me like a ton of bricks.
I never looked at the uniforms and personal effects of war dead the same way again. Suddenly most of the things I owned weren't nearly as exciting or cool, many became tragic and represented the gravity of lives lost that were full of promise. It was no longer a rare Ike jacket, but the uniform of a corporal who did his duty and hoped he would survive the war to get home to the woman he planned to marry and live his life with. Her life, regardless of how she made out, was certainly changed forever as well and likely she was harmed forever.
What at the time was a "great find" for me suddenly became a hope that my "becoming a caretaker for the uniform" and taking over the burden brought her some amount of peace and comfort. I hope that in her mind she felt like she "did right" by her lost fiance. All that said, I still wish I never saw that ring.
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